Legal Web Sites Find Niche
In Catering to Smaller Firms

Early last year, Rob LeChevallier, an attorney in a small law firm in Lake Oswego, Ore., received a call from a law firm in Australia that had found him on an Internet home page.

The Australian firm represented a client who was suing a man from the Portland area for an incident in Australia. The firm's investigators were unable to serve the papers, and the statute of limitations was about to run out, so the Australians hired Mr. LeChevallier to find the defendant. Mr. LeChevallier's firm was able to track him down relatively...